Mooring is valid Scrabble Word

Is mooring a scrabble word?
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7 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for MOORING in dictionary:

VERB:

make fast (a boat) by attaching it by cable or rope to the shore or to an anchor

NOUN:

a place where a vessel may be moored
a member of a NW African Muslim people of mixed Berber and Arab descent. In the 8th century they conquered the Iberian peninsula, but were finally driven out of their last stronghold in Granada at the end of the 15th century.
place for mooring a ship
The act of confining a ship to a particular place, by means of anchors or fastenings.
That which serves to confine a ship to a place, as anchors, cables, bridles, etc.
The place or condition of a ship thus confined.
a place where a craft can be made fast
(nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to secure a vessel by means of cables

Words related to MOORING

moor6 moored9 moorings11 moors7

Words that contain MOORING

moorings11 smooring11 unmooring12

How to use MOORING in a sentence

The rope trailing from its waist had been twisted by the current round the mooring post, and had held it back whilst the tide had ebbed away from it.
And when this was done, I pushed a sharp branch downward into the shore, and I hookt a branch of the raft about this mooring, and so did be nigh ready for the voyage.
One of the life-saving men tossed a mooring line ashore.
Armed with sharp axes two men prepared to cut the mooring lines on a sign from the Rough Red.
When darkness came suddenly at last, he made in toward shore, mooring to the warm-fretted end of a fallen and forgotten landing.
Then she threw off the mooring rope, rowed out to midstream, where she could get the full advantage of the current, and then began to row down river as fast as she could pull.
Then the boat began to swing, and the man ran down and leaped the widening space as she drew away from her mooring.
One thing occurred, however, which at first caused both of the seamen a good deal of uneasiness, and again showed them the necessity there was for mooring the ship.
He had an impression of many eyes, of a dense crew of squat bodies, of long, many-jointed limbs hauling at their mooring ropes to bring the thing down upon him.
It is alongside this that sailing vessels lie, the wharf being the only land mooring with a roof for the housing of products.

There were rings all along the topmost step for the mooring of small craft, and he quickly made fast his wherry and stood at the iron-clamped portal.
He knew that he had been observed more than once with some attention as he had stepped on board his wherry, or had brought it up to the mooring place.
She slowed down from this trainlike speed, stopped, picked up a mooring, made fast.
A mooring such as Allan found when he found your mother.
Instantly the flat-bottomed craft swung dizzily around, and still held by her stern mooring, dashed against the bank.
They vary in size and construction from a log of wood to steel mooring buoys for battleships or a steel gas buoy.
The bell was clanging its final summons, and the slowly revolving paddle-wheels were taking the strain from the mooring lines.
Close by it was a buoyed mooring float six or eight feet square, bobbing in the rushing water.
But this was also the hurried work of a few seconds, and then Tom moved his machine to the old mooring float and lifted it upon the bobbing platform.
Their lights gathered to our centre, an incoming of delicate and shining mooring lines.
In fine weather, with the wind at north-east, spars of any dimensions may be sent off from Sydney-Bay, by mooring a boat without the reef, and hauling the spars off.
In a twinkling half a dozen torches had flashed out all over a small vessel, now barely visible in the night, at one of the mooring rings.
The method of mooring is very rudimentary although practical.
On the ship mooring, the pilot sat down, and in a frenzy of delight at his success in bringing her up safely, flourished his arms and chuckled in his own language.

Similar words containing MOOR without suffix ing

moor6 moors7 moory10 smoor7 moored9 moorva11 smoors8 unmoor8 moorage10 moorhen12 moorier9 moorill9 moorish12 moorlog10 moorman11 moormen11 moorvas12 smoored10 unmoors9 moorages11 moorburn12 moorcock18 moorfowl16 moorhens13 mooriest10 moorills10 moorings11 moorland11 moorlogs11 moorwort13 smooring11 unmoored11 moorburns13 moorcocks19 moorfowls17 moorlands12 moorworts14 unmooring12 blackamoor20 blackamoors21 moorbuzzard34 moorbuzzards35

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